baggAGE
Commissioned by LA Contemporary Dance Company - in their First Choreography Lab
I am passionate about Motherhood and our on going, dialogue, connection, pressure, expectations and relationship every woman has with it, since they were a young. I am interested in exploring the vast relationship that everyone has with motherhood, in their own beautiful and individual way. I desire to look at how motherhood is essentially ingrained in the majority of female’s by biology.
Details
2019
8 Minutes
Premiered July of 2019 at L
Supported By LACDC
Choreographic Mentorship from Genevieve Carson and Becca Lemme
Created in collaboration with performers Carissa Songhorian & Jan-Matthew Sevilla
Music Composition by Matt Kirk
Video footage and images by LA Contemporary Dance Company, Jamila Glass
“Burright announced her WIP, BaggAGE, as an exploration of the concept of motherhood – women’s relationships to the concept, men’s relationships to the concept, the societal pressure to become a mother, and how our relationships to the concept of motherhood evolve throughout life. BaggAGE is a duet and features dancers Jan-Matthew Sevilla and Carissa Songhorian filling the empty spaces between them, pulling apart, rushing back together, seeing past each other, through each other and around each other until finally fully seeing one another.”
“Later in the piece, the dancers break the fourth wall and look to the audience, inviting us to ponder our own connection to our mothers and our relationship to motherhood as voice over of the choreographer and dancers sharing their own thoughts on the subject fill the room. It’s a beautiful, moving WIP; the concepts were well-fleshed out despite their broad coverage.”
- Kathrine Grace Murphy — Quote Source